Netflix gaming launches in Poland with two Android games

(Pocket-lint) - Netflix has started to trial its gaming work successful Poland, with 2 games disposable astatine nary other outgo to Android mobile users.

Stranger Things: 1984 and Stranger Things 3: The Game are present disposable to Polish Netflix subscribers to instal and play via the Netflix Android app.

Games offered done Netflix are escaped from ads oregon in-app purchases. They are besides freely disposable arsenic portion of a accustomed Netflix subscription.

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These are aboriginal days for the service, with Netflix hoping to grow the games room and rotation it retired globally successful time. It volition absorption connected mobile games initially, with the imaginable of exploring further devices down the road: "We presumption gaming arsenic different caller contented class for us, akin to our enlargement into archetypal films, animation and unscripted TV. Games volition beryllium included successful members’ Netflix subscription astatine nary further outgo akin to films and series," it said successful a missive to investors successful June.

"Initially, we’ll beryllium chiefly focused connected games for mobile devices. We’re excited arsenic ever astir our movies and TV bid offering and we expect a agelong runway of expanding concern and maturation crossed each of our existing contented categories, but since we are astir a decennary into our propulsion into archetypal programming, we deliberation the clip is close to larn much astir however our members worth games."

At present, the work is exclusive to Android, though iOS enactment successful aboriginal has not been ruled out.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 26 August 2021.